Winning Prospect Idea: Identify Diabetics

Congratulations to Shea Parkes and his top-voted idea in the prospect phase of Practice Fusion’s Prediction Challenge! Earlier this month we invited the Kaggle community to study a data set of 10,000 de-identified electronic health records and submit ideas for predictive modeling competitions based on that data set. Shea’s idea for predicting who will get diabetes was the top-voted entry and confirmed as the winner by a panel from Practice Fusion.

Other popular ideas that generated lots of interest included predicting those at risk for coronary heart disease, submitted by Ken Mitton, those at risk for Alzheimer’s, submitted by Barry Marrs, and predicting what medications patients were taking, submitted by David Chudzicki.

We at Kaggle are excited to see Prospect taking off as it has. It was our first experiment, but crowdsourced data exploration looks to be off to a strong start. The best ideas were grounded in the details of the data set, included a clear approach for the structure of the competition and suggestions for evaluation metrics.

The Practice Fusion Prediction Competition will start on July 9, so be sure to check back for details! In the meantime, take a look Practice Fusion’s Open Challenge: combine the data set with anything from www.data.gov and submit your best and most creative data visualizations, new health applications, or data analyses.